October 2016 Archives

The Report

In a GitHub issue discussion by my former colleagues, I noticed weird errors being reported. I was curious about the cause, but not enough to dig deeper, and as nothing happened, I forgot about it.

But then they asked me for a favour, and I agreed to help them with a project. But, to my surprise, I wasn’t able to install the tools I originally helped to create, getting the same error as the poor GitHub guy. Quick check of the CPAN Testers showed problems in Treex::PML, one of the underlying libraries, all the way down to 5.20.0. A typical report would look like this: